Teach Yourself Modern Persian/Farsi Complete Course Audiopack

by Narguess Farzad

Learning Modern Persian as easy as 1-2-3 With this book, Modern Persian is attainable for any beginning student. You can use Teach Yourself Modern Persian Complete Course at your own pace or as a supplement to formal courses. This complete course is based on the very latest learning methods and designed to be enjoyable and user-friendly. Prepared by experts in the language, Teach Yourself Modern Persian begins with the basics and gradually promotes you to a level of smooth and confident communication, including:

Genres: Language, Reference, Iran, Nonfiction

224 pages, Audio CD

First published February 28, 2002

Reviews

[Aaron Broadwell · Rating 3 out of 5]

You can learn some Farsi from this book, but I cannot recommend it very highly. I think it is a bad mistake for a textbook to have something like a chapter on adverbs, to introduce thirty in that chapter, then move on.

Also it seems very questionable to me to delay introducing any systematic discussion of any verb other than 'be' to the second half of the book.

There are various glitches with the exercises as well; it is really essential that if you are asked to translate back and forth than every English word in an example be present in the vocabulary (grammatical words excepted, of course...) Ditto for the Persian.

I think it is also a serious error to delay discussion of the actual colloquial pronunciations of various Persian words to an appendix at the end. The spelling and pronunciation of Persian diverge at points, and it seems to me that it would be much more sensible to discuss this every time an affected vocabulary item/morpheme appears.

[Mirella Ducasteele · Rating 3 out of 5]

Eigenlijk een zeer goed leerboek. Het krijgt geen hoger cijfer omdat het bedoeld is om vanaf nul te starten, maar ik vrees dat dit niet zou gelukt zijn. Ik heb de indruk dat het zeer volledig is. Tweede recensie na het uittesten van mijn kennis in Iran ...

[Tahira Tahira]

Amazing & very helpful book for Persian lovers
really a great effort for beginners

[Christina · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was lacking in so many ways! I will stick to Assimil and Colloquial from now on.

[Y. Cimen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not useful for learning grammar and colloquial Persian but if you want to dabble in Persian and learn some historical stuff about the culture and language, then buying this book might be a good idea, which is why I bought this book. But other than that, it's lacking in many ways.

[Agustinus Wibowo · Rating 2 out of 5]

the grammar variations explained in this book is not enough, imho. after finishing the last chapter only simple grammar notes were explained, when all other essential things r rushed at the appendix. the book is too easy, and in fact not many new things are learned, so it becomes less effective as a 'teach yourself' book.

[Vf · Rating 2 out of 5]

Makes the grammar look a lot more complicated than it actually is!

[Rat de bibliothèque · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too fast paced for a beginner

[Chris]

English is too hard.

[Amy]

I got this because I want to be able to read the script. I've just started. Thus far I've learned that ab means water and there are no capital letters in Persian.

[J · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the better books I’ve read on learning Farsi.